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  SMITHSONIAN 
  INSTITUTION, 
  1922. 
  

  

  the 
  whole 
  Bible, 
  but 
  the 
  soldier's 
  pocket 
  Bible, 
  which 
  was 
  generally 
  

   buttoned 
  between 
  the 
  coat 
  and 
  the 
  waistcoat 
  next 
  to 
  the 
  heart. 
  It 
  

   consists 
  of 
  a 
  number 
  of 
  quotations 
  from 
  the 
  Geneva 
  version 
  (all 
  but 
  

   two 
  from 
  the 
  Old 
  Testament) 
  which 
  were 
  especially 
  applicable 
  to 
  

   war 
  times. 
  Only 
  two 
  copies 
  of 
  the 
  original 
  of 
  this 
  work 
  are 
  known 
  

   to 
  exist 
  — 
  one 
  in 
  America 
  and 
  the 
  other 
  in 
  the 
  British 
  Museum. 
  

   The 
  work 
  was 
  reissued 
  in 
  1693 
  under 
  the 
  title 
  " 
  The 
  Christian 
  

   Soldier's 
  Penny 
  Bible." 
  The 
  only 
  copy 
  extant, 
  so 
  far 
  as 
  known, 
  

   is 
  in 
  the 
  British 
  Museum. 
  

  

  Bishop 
  Asbury's 
  New 
  Testament. 
  With 
  hundreds 
  of 
  the 
  texts 
  for 
  

   his 
  sermons 
  marked 
  in 
  his 
  own 
  handwriting. 
  Francis 
  Asbury 
  (born 
  

   in 
  Staffordshire, 
  1745; 
  died 
  in 
  Virginia, 
  1816) 
  was 
  the 
  first 
  Bishop 
  

   of 
  the 
  Methodist 
  Church 
  ordained 
  in 
  America. 
  He 
  was 
  sent 
  as 
  a 
  

   missionary 
  by 
  John 
  Wesley 
  in 
  1771, 
  and 
  in 
  person 
  organized 
  the 
  

   work 
  of 
  his 
  denomination 
  in 
  the 
  entire 
  eastern 
  portion 
  of 
  the 
  United 
  

   States, 
  performed 
  the 
  first 
  ordination 
  in 
  the 
  Mississippi 
  valley, 
  and 
  

   in 
  1784 
  founded 
  the 
  first 
  Methodist 
  college. 
  

  

  The 
  Life 
  and 
  Morals 
  of 
  Jesus 
  of 
  Nazareth. 
  Extracted 
  textually 
  

   from 
  the 
  Gospels 
  in 
  Greek, 
  Latin, 
  French, 
  and 
  English, 
  by 
  Thomas 
  

   Jefferson, 
  being 
  the 
  so-called 
  Jefferson 
  Bible. 
  A 
  compilation 
  made 
  

   by 
  Jefferson 
  about 
  1819, 
  consisting 
  of 
  passages 
  from 
  the 
  Gospels, 
  cut 
  

   out 
  and 
  pasted 
  in 
  a 
  volume 
  according 
  to 
  a 
  scheme 
  of 
  his 
  own. 
  A 
  

   concordance 
  of 
  the 
  texts 
  is 
  given 
  in 
  the 
  front 
  and 
  the 
  sources 
  of 
  the 
  

   verses 
  in 
  the 
  margins; 
  the 
  section 
  of 
  the 
  Roman 
  law 
  under 
  which 
  

   Christ 
  was 
  tried 
  is 
  also 
  cited. 
  All 
  of 
  these 
  annotations, 
  as 
  well 
  as 
  the 
  

   title-page 
  and 
  concordance, 
  are 
  in 
  Jefferson's 
  own 
  handwriting. 
  Two 
  

   maps, 
  one 
  of 
  Palestine 
  and 
  another 
  of 
  the 
  ancient 
  world, 
  are 
  pasted 
  

   in 
  the 
  front. 
  Jefferson 
  long 
  had 
  the 
  preparation 
  of 
  this 
  book 
  in 
  

   mind. 
  On 
  January 
  29, 
  1804, 
  he 
  wrote 
  from 
  Washington 
  to 
  Doctor 
  

   Priestley: 
  "I 
  had 
  sent 
  to 
  Philadelphia 
  to 
  get 
  two 
  Testaments 
  

   (Greek) 
  of 
  the 
  same 
  edition, 
  and 
  two 
  English, 
  with 
  a 
  design 
  to 
  cut 
  

   out 
  the 
  morsels 
  of 
  morality, 
  and 
  paste 
  them 
  on 
  the 
  leaves 
  of 
  a 
  book." 
  

   Nearly 
  10 
  years 
  later 
  (October 
  13, 
  1813), 
  in 
  writing 
  to 
  John 
  Adams, 
  

   he 
  stated 
  that 
  he 
  had 
  for 
  his 
  own 
  use 
  cut 
  up 
  the 
  Gospels 
  " 
  verse 
  by 
  

   verse 
  out 
  of 
  the 
  printed 
  book, 
  arranging 
  the 
  matter 
  which 
  is 
  evi- 
  

   dently 
  his 
  (Christ's)." 
  In 
  the 
  same 
  letter 
  he 
  describes 
  the 
  book 
  as 
  

   " 
  the 
  most 
  sublime 
  and 
  benevolent 
  code 
  of 
  morals 
  which 
  has 
  ever 
  

   been 
  offered 
  to 
  man." 
  It 
  is 
  said 
  that 
  it 
  was 
  Jefferson's 
  original 
  idea 
  

   to 
  have 
  this 
  compilation 
  translated 
  for 
  use 
  among 
  the 
  Indians 
  (pis. 
  

   41 
  and 
  42). 
  

  

  The 
  Two 
  Copies 
  of 
  the 
  English 
  New 
  Testament 
  from 
  which 
  Jef- 
  

   ferson 
  Made 
  the 
  Clippings 
  for 
  the 
  English 
  Version 
  of 
  the 
  " 
  Life 
  and 
  

   Morals 
  of 
  Jesus 
  of 
  Nazareth." 
  Printed 
  in 
  Philadelphia, 
  1804. 
  Jef- 
  

   ferson 
  refers 
  to 
  these 
  New 
  Testaments 
  in 
  a 
  letter 
  of 
  January 
  29, 
  1804, 
  

  

  